来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：古希腊历史简介 第4集 第4集》

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  political society was
  对他们而言 政治社会
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  essential for living any kind of a good life.
  是人们获得幸福生活的关键
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  In the Odyssey,you remember Odysseus finds himself
  还记得《奥德赛》中的奥德修斯
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  on the island of the Cyclops, those one-eyed monsters,
  在独眼怪居住的岛上遇到的那些怪物
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  and what is it about them that make them so monstrous,
  为什么这些独眼怪在荷马式英雄的眼中
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  so inhuman from the perspective of the Homeric heroes?
  是那么丑陋 那么残忍
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  Here's the line that Homer writes,
  荷马有如下描写
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  they live without the Greek word is nomoi,
  他们的的生活脱离于nomoi[希腊文]
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  which we would translate as laws,
  我们可以将其翻译为法律
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  but before they become
  但是在这些成为法律之前
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  laws they are the customary norms of society,
  它们是社会约定俗成的标准
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  in other words, civilization.
  换言之 就是文明